Sentences with phrase «century abolitionist»

Malcolm Bailey is best known for his late 1960s polymer paintings with collaged images of slave ships and their human cargo — based on 18th century abolitionist diagrams.

Ligon's paintings incorporate phrases and text from diverse sources from famous 19th - century abolitionist Sojourner Truth to the stand - up comedian, Richard Pryor.

In it, Kidd takes the bare facts surrounding Charleston's famous (and infamous) 19th century abolitionist / emancipist sisters, Sarah and Angelina Grimke, and, as she puts it, grafts fiction onto truth to weave a fascinating and inspirational account of early abolitionism in America.

Twice in the documentary, Ruth Bader Ginsburg quotes nineteenth - century abolitionist and suffragette Sarah Grimké, «I ask no favor for my sex.

His book was published just one year after Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, and together the two books form a powerful mid-19th century abolitionist pair (Northup, in fact, dedicated his own book to Beecher Stowe).

In addition to «Mum Bett», OSV will feature portrayals of Abby Kelley, a 19th - century abolitionist, and William Lloyd Garrison, a founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society on Martin Luther King Jr..

Whether implying a 19th century abolitionist was alive or ignoring a handshake from the German Chancellor, Trump provided plenty of fodder for ridicule from his online critics and amusement from his supporters.

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We are no more - and no less - heroic than the suffragists and abolitionists of the 19th century; and the labor organizers, Freedom Riders, Stonewall demonstrators, and environmentalists of the 20th century.

Imagine the difficulty that abolitionists faced in making their case in the mid-19th century.

«I became convinced after my study of the subject in Abolitionists Abroad,» says Sanneh, «that 18th - century evangelical Christianity represented a social revolution of enormous import for the New World and for Africa by offering outcasts, slaves and captives a moral perspective on their oppression and exclusion....

After that, there were a few instances when popes condemned the Atlantic slave trade for its cruelties; and in the 18th and 19th centuries, Protestant abolitionists in England and America produced theological arguments against slavery merely as such.

A prominent element in Gilead is the abolitionist movement, which tackled the major social issue of the 19th century: slavery.

American feminism of the 19th century was born of the abolitionist movement, and of equal significance with Friedan's book as impetus for the current women's movement was the experience of women in the civil rights and antiwar protests of the «60s.

Such an interpretation of revelation has roots in nineteenth - century black abolitionist and feminist Sojourner Truth.

The book's gala collection of newspaper clippings, photographs and tributes provides a wealth of material for teaching blocks on 19th century U.S. literature, history, and the Abolitionist Movement.

The candidate alluded several times last night to the GOP's 19th Century anti-slavery roots and its ties to abolitionist Frederick Douglass — a man Trump appeared to think was still alive while speaking at a Black History Month event in February.

It remained popular target for Labour activists for much of the 20th century, though the party's abolitionist zeal waned with the rise of New Labour.

In the late 18th century, British abolitionists and the Sierra Leone Company founded Freetown as a home for Black Britons * and in 1808 the country became the...

Told in multiple voices, Engle's richly metaphorical novel - in - verse is a fictionalized biography of the nineteenth - century Cuban abolitionist poet Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, known as Tula.

This gripping history of nineteenth - century Ohio abolitionist families eschews myths and legends to expose the reality behind the Underground Railroad.

In the late 18th century, British abolitionists and the Sierra Leone Company founded Freetown as a home for Black Britons * and in 1808 the country became the first British colony in Africa.

In the late 18th century, British abolitionists and the Sierra Leone Company founded Freetown as a home for Black Britons * and in 1808 the country became the first British colony in Africa; by 1821 Freetown was the seat of government for all British colonies in West Africa.

Tula fights for freedom and education for herself, and ultimately for women, slaves, and dissenters, in a poetic story of nineteenth - century Cuban abolitionist and writer Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda.

Later in the century, it was adapted as a battle hymn by suffragettes and abolitionists, who used the song's title and opening line — «My country ’ t is of thee, / sweet land of liberty» — as an ironic jab at the nation's hypocrisies.

The social reformer and abolitionist Frederick Douglass was the most photographed American man of the nineteenth century.

In this exhibition he proposes a hybridized cross-pollination between the iconic nineteenth century transcendentalists like Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Louisa May Alcott, with African writers such as Phillis Wheatley and Lucy Terry Prince, along with abolitionists like Frederick Douglass.